[2017 Feb]
Forbes Leads Media Attack Against Turmeric's Health Benefits ''What
Mr. Leminick is referring here to as “evidence,” or the lack thereof, is the
randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, human clinical trial (RCT). The
RCT has become the epistemiological holy grail of Scientism and the Medical
Monotheism it informs. In this belief system, it doesn’t matter if something has
had cross-cultural validation as a healing agent, even after thousands of years
of safe human use; nor does it matter if you personally have experienced
(N-of-1) direct and measurable health benefits from consuming it. This is
essentially a pyramidal control system: the RCT situated on top, and your
first-hand experience and associated “anecdotal claims" on bottom, completely
worthless. What's considered 'really real' is what has been externally validated
through the RCT. Also worthless within this view are the thousands of cell (in
vitro) and animal (in vivo) studies that exist indicating therapeutic properties
may exist. This Scientism-based belief system is so powerful and all-consuming
that sometimes I describe it as the 'Religion that devours all others.''